Ariel Griffiths Pre-Production Blog

These images show the drawings of Ellie and how she ended up the character she is now.

This is the Animatic. Voices were recorded by myself and friends, while other sounds were taken from royalty free sites

This is the storyboard for a two minute excerpt of that is listed in the Script

This is the Script for the Pilot Episode of Ellie's World, which features an introduction to Ellie and the World she is dreamt into. (Establishing shot of a car driving down a road, the camera stays with the car until it stops outside of a small school.) (The camera shows a little girl (Ellie) looking behind the camera where her mother is and stays on Ellie as she leaves the car) Ellie’s mother-Remember to walk home tonight sweetie, I’ll be home for an hour before you go to bed (Ellie holds a disappointed smile) Ellie’s mother- Do you have your key? Ellie-Yeah mom, Love you. Ellie’s mother-Love you too (The camera follows Ellie out the door and into the playground, she sits on a bench, pulls a book out of her bag, but doesn’t open it, instead she looks at the camera with the same disappointed smile) (While Ellie stays in the same sitting position and facial expression, the scene around her changes from sitting in class, being picked last in a PE...

While the Pilot will be posted in full-detail, here are Synopsises for three concept episodes Working Episode Title “ A Magic Encore ” “I’m gonna put more than a spell on you wise guy!”-Magic Man MCE Ellie wakes up to her mother calling through the ajar door, she looks at Tyson sleeping in his cage and thinks of the weird dream she just had, she walks downstairs to see the door open and her mom calling from outside, saying they’re both late and need to eat in the car and get to work/school.  After another lonely day, while her mother watches TV, Ellie returns home and draws some of the characters she met in her dream using the light of the TV, as night falls she goes to bed wishing she could go back, amazingly she does indeed wake up at the exact same spot of the park, with Tyson and Squidgy acting as if nothing’s happened. While enjoying the park again, Ellie accidentally creates Magic Man, a teenage wizard superhero based on the movie Ellie’s mother wa...

These Concept Drawings are based on the idea that the Park is boundless, instead of Space themed rides and Shows, Ellie could literally take a Rocket into Space and travel. Instead of a Swinging Pirate Ship Ride, Ellie could literally take a ship to Sea and Travel the Seas